Very interesting concept. Yeah and even just like multicellular organisms is just amazing, that grew out of a need to adapt (one assumes), working together to form a crazy complex organism. Amazing stuff. And extending it to consciousness hmm.... Can't even imagine what's to come really. Seems like much of these take place in such large time scales, but maybe things are accelerating.... On a side note I do like how you separated as I-phone. Haha. Or me-phone. Yup.